Stanford Lively Arts is pleased to announce an unprecedented year of
performances and artistic engagement activities. Throughout this
distinctive season of arts making on the Peninsula, we invite our
audiences and artists to explore new ideas, pose questions and
contemplate answers, and share in the experience of live performance.
Watch a video clip previewing some of the upcoming performances »
Read the press release announcing the new season »
Subscription ordering begins in July, and Subscribers, Friends, and Partners get priority seating. Add your name to our mailing to get email updates about the new season and to request your copy of the season brochure.
Watch a video clip previewing some of the upcoming performances »
Read the press release announcing the new season »
Subscription ordering begins in July, and Subscribers, Friends, and Partners get priority seating. Add your name to our mailing to get email updates about the new season and to request your copy of the season brochure.
October 2008
Marsalis Brasilianos: Branford Marsalis
5 October 2008 2:30 pm | Memorial Auditorium
Soweto Gospel Choir
7 October 2008 8:00 pm | Memorial Church
James Baldwin’s ”Sonny’s Blues“: Staged Reading and Concert,
10 October 2008 8:00 pm | Pigott Theater
St. Lawrence String Quartet with Claude Frank, piano
12 October 2008 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
A Life Unreconciled: The Late Quartets of Dimitri Shostakovich, Emerson String Quartet
15 October 2008 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
World Premiere: Songs of Ascension,Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble
18 October 2008 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
String Theory,Turtle Island Quartet and the Assad Duo
29 October 2008 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
November 2008
Rob Kapilow’s What Makes it Great?, Inside Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings
2 November 2008 2:30 pm | Kresge Auditorium
The Scales of Memory,Urban Bush Women and Compagnie Jant-Bi
12 November 2008 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
The Messiaen Centenary: Quartet for the End of Time/Selected Organ Works
13 November 2008 8:00 pm | Memorial Church
Concierto de Cámara,Imani Winds and Miami String Quartet in concert
19 November 2008 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
December 2008
A Stan Kenton Christmas, Boston Brass and the Brass All-Star Big Band
3 December 2008 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Santa Rosa Symphony
6 December 2008 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium
A Chanticleer Christmas
9 December 2008 8:00 pm | 10 December 2008 8:00 pm | Memorial Church
January 2009
Rob Kapilow’ What Makes It Great?, Inside Beethoven’s Archduke Trio
7 January 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
More Tobias Wolff Stories: Word for Word Performing Arts Company 10 January 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
![[Family Matinee] STREB vs. GRAVITY, STREB](/images/artistimages0809/Artist_96/STRE_96.jpg "10 January 2009")
[Family Matinee] STREB vs. GRAVITY, STREB
23 January 2009 8:00 pm | 24 January 2009 2:30 pm | Memorial Auditorium
St. Lawrence String Quartet, Barry Shiffman, violin and Marina Hoover, cello 24 January 2009 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Messiaen Centenary: Messiaen Remix
28 January 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
February 2009
Rokia Traoré
4 February 2009 8:00 PM | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Opera Fantasies: Livia Sohn, violin
15 February 2009 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Limón Centenary: José Limón-The Making of an Artist
18 February 2009 5:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Looking East,Kronos Quartet
20 February 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Messiaen Centenary:Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus,
22 February 2009 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Esperanza Spalding, bass
27 February 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
March 2009
Percussion Theater
7 March 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Danú
11 March 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Sunday Salsa,Spanish Harlem Orchestra
15 March 2009 2:30 pm | Memorial Auditorium
April 2009
Lila Downs
1 April 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
St. Lawrence String Quartet
5 April 2009 2:30 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory
18 April 2009 8:00 pm | Kresge Auditorium
Choral Master: The Music of Johannes Ockeghem, Cut Circle
22 April 2009 8:00 pm | Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Limón Centenary, Limón Dance Company
25 April 2009 8:00 pm | Memorial Auditorium